Wednesday, 2 August 2017

I Hope You Are Not Having Your Breakfast Now

Or lunch or dinner while reading this. That's because I want to talk about poop. Caterpillar poop. Look what I found one morning. Nestled on my Adenium leaf were one, two, three, four droppings. Eeeuwww!!!

If you notice, the droppings are not smooth like balls, rather they have patterned ridges. I wonder how that happens. It made me think of those cake icing piping tips that can make shapes and such. Opps... Sorry.I proceeded to look for the perpetrator. Can you see it?

It's right under the leaf above where it deposited its droppings. It was so well camouflaged that it took me awhile to find it (even though I figured it must be above the poop, my eyesight is getting worse).

I can't leave it to feast on the leaves. This little critter is capable of demolishing a whole plant.

So I removed the leaf and caterpillar and placed it outside my garden. Bye bye!

Ha ha ha...this is nice looking poop. Yes, I have seen them before but surprising this caterpillar choose to munch on your Adenium leaves. They are well camouflaged but their poop usually gives them away. Lol!

wah, i also wouldn't have realised that's caterpillar poop ... they look like some kind of unripe blackberries or something like that to me too! and maybe they taste like berries too :D wouldn't the caterpillar be able to slowly find its way back to your garden :D

LOL! I always find their poops at my plants. They especially love the citrus plants! The caterpillars have a big appetite! chomp chomp chomp, and pretty soon the branch will be botak! and more poops! I especially hate it when they settle on my kaffir lime plants! Urgh....those precious leaves!

They look a little like our tomato worms.. or horned catipillar (without the horns) one can do some serious damage to single plant. I wonder... what does the mature moth orbutterfly from these look like?